• mosiacmango
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    3 months ago

    3/5 compromise wasent even about considering them as “mostly” people. It was about how they should be counted as far as a census was concerned, in order to determine the amount of congressional representation for that state. They still had no rights and were fully considered property.

    If only Jon brown had been one of the founders.

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      Oh absolutely. It was the southern whites wanting more power than they are worth.